Iran Misses Another Deadline

Updated Feb. 23, 2007 12:01 am ET

Conspiracy theorists may soon have to add another name to Dick Cheney's secret cabal planning war with Iran: Mohamed ElBaradei.

At least that's what a wag might say after the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) speculated this week in an interview with the Financial Times that Iran might be as close as six months from developing an industrial-scale uranium enrichment facility of 3,000 centrifuges. That kind of capability would put Iran on track to produce sufficient fissile uranium for a nuclear...